To DVD-R and ?Back???

Mystified again. AARRGH

Before building this machine, I copied a whole bunch (4.5 gigs) of digital image (personal pictures) files to a DVD-R disc.

New machine finally up and running great. Want to copy images back to computer.

Popped disc into drive which recorded it, Pioneer AO5U. Open folder by clicking on drive in "My Computer" All images there, can run view, slide show, thumbnail, etc. Individual files are .jpg

So I do "copy, paste" to formatted HDD set up just for storage of digital images.

Get error message: "Cannot copy files, cannot read from the source file or disk"

Multiple attempts yeild same results. HELP

I swear, this machine is going to turn me into a raving lunatic.

May have used Nero to do the original transfer, just don't remember. Any ideas are welcome.

Not sure if this post belongs in hardware, so Mr. Mod, switch it at your discretion.

Martin

 

Pete: thanks for chiming in on this, I have downloaded ISO Buster, not tried to use it yet.

For info, the disk is a DVD-RW, not DVD-R as previously stated.

I was able to use Kodak Picture Transfer Software to get photos (1365 of them) back to hard disk. This created more problems.

1. it transferred the pictures in bulk, taking them out of their assigned folders. It in effect unsorted them.

2. it changed all picture dates to today.

3. Resized pictures to suit itself.

4. it assigned new prefix ( "ek" whatever that is) to some photos.

5. it erased them from the DVD-RW disk.

AARRRRGH!!!!

Of course I can partly recover from this, re-sort 1365 pictures into their respective folders and copy them back to DVD.

Unfortunately in the prefixed and formatted size that is now the only existing copy of these pictures.

AARRRRRRRGH!!!!!

Had to tell somebody!!!

Martin

 

Pete: I guess you could credit anxiety and stupidity on my part for the fix I'm in with those pictures.

First, I was so happy that the pictures could be transferred back to HDD, when after installing the Kodak program and it asked if I wanted to "transfer now" I clicked yes without thinking to look at the settings.

In preferences, the "erase pictures from source" had been pre-selected, I guess default for camera users.

Then, when I discovered that the pictures had been erased and I no longer had a back up copy, I figured I'd better copy them back to DVD before a crash wiped them out on the HDD.

So I did, back to the same DVD, and ovewrote any ability to recover the pictures in their orignal form. Not only that, but I have two programs (not currently installed) that could have done the recovery. I guess I just was out to lunch that evening.

As I said, the Kodak program re-sized and renamed about 10% of the pictures, shrunk them down must be 75% and prefixed ek and renumbered. I see no rhyme or reason, but I guess there is one somwhere.

I can enlarge them but the pixels are missing, at 800 X 600 they are jagged. Unusable at any magnification.

Stop and think before doing anything. (my new motto)

The original mystery remains, why would Windows refuse to copy them in the first place.

Martin

 

Live and learn, yes, but why does it always have to be the hard way??

(not a real question)

 

Thats what my Dad always credited me with - learning everything the hard way. **** good teacher though.